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Antoniades, Irene. "Modern writing and the occult." Thesis, University of London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264702.
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Harvey, M. J. "Pollution transfer by occult deposition." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378479.
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Chessa, Luciano. "Luigi Russolo and the occult /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Sieg, George J. "Occult war : the legacy of Iranian dualism and its continuing influence upon the modern occult revival." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548618.
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Sangha, Amandeep K. "William Lethaby, symbolism and the occult." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44643/.
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The thesis will reconsider the thought and design work of the architect William Richard Lethaby (1857–1931). The research will focus upon Lethaby’s affiliation with the occult, with particular reference to alchemy. The relationship between nineteenth- and twentieth-century architects and occultism has been overlooked, and in many cases intentionally neglected, by scholars and historians. Current scholarship in the field has placed a greater emphasis on twentieth-century proponents of the occult. This detailed study on Lethaby and the occult therefore forms an original contribution to existing scholarship, highlighting the parallels between the nineteenth-century architect’s work and the ideology and imagery of the occult. The thesis will demonstrate Lethaby’s familiarity with occult concepts and the extent to which these were employed by him in his work. The study will then go on to examine how Lethaby’s fascination with occult themes and magic had a consequent influence on his contemporaries and question how far this interest in the occult impacted the future generation of designers and subsequent movements. The research will recognise Lethaby’s work within the context of its time and suggest it to be a product of its era. Alongside the well-documented Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth-century there also existed a spiritual revolution. This encouraged countless individuals, particularly members of the avant-garde, to reject the traditional religious pathways and to seek answers through more experimental and mystical alternatives. The majority of Lethaby’s working life was spent in London, where there was a revival of interest in the occult that included the foundation of such societies as the Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The thesis will illustrate how Lethaby was profoundly influenced by the Zeitgeist, which was saturated with references to spiritualism, mysticism and the occult. Lethaby’s attraction towards mysticism and magic, as see in first published book, Architecture, Mysticism and Myth (1891), which was later revised and retitled Architecture, Nature and Magic (1928), was not confined to his theoretical work but also pervaded both his design and his completed work. A considerable portion of the thesis will therefore, for the first time, extensively scrutinise several of Lethaby’s drawings and architectural work to suggest how they embody his interest in the occult. The study will conclude by unearthing parallels between Lethaby’s completed works and those executed by prominent modern architects with recognised occult affiliations, such as Lauweriks, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, to suggest a comparable use of occult symbolism, with similar intent. The thesis will create a renewed interest in Lethaby and address the impact of occultism on the architect, his contemporaries and the wider Arts and Crafts Movement. Finally, it will put forward that subsequent twentieth-century schools or movements in architecture with spiritualist tendencies, such as the Bauhaus and the Modern Movement, were not so much revolutionary as evolutionary, advancing from a previous Arts and Crafts ideology.
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McIntire, Janet E. "H. Rider Haggard and the Victorian occult." Full text available online (restricted access), 2000. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/McIntire.pdf.
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Ryan, Kathleen T. M. D. "Occult Hepatitis B in HIV Positive Batswana." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468335589.
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Davies, Owen. "The decline in the popular belief in witchcraft & magic." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282362.
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Roosa, Naomi Monique. "Participation in faecal occult blood colorectal cancer screening /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsr7813.pdf.
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Greenwood, Susan Elizabeth Jane. "The British occult subculture : identity, gender and morality." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300028.
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Wiener, Martin. "Lymphatic mapping and occult nodal metastasis in melanoma." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13621/.
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Around 20% of patients, diagnosed with a clinically localized primary cutaneous melanoma, have occult lymph node metastases. Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy, using pre-operative lymphoscintigraphy, intra-operative blue dye injection and gamma probe localization, in most cases identifies the node or nodes most likely to contain occult metastases, if present. The presence or absence of such metastases is the most powerful prognostic indicator in this group of patients. However, a number of other factors related to the patient and the primary melanoma can be used to determine prognosis. It is therefore important that the quality of lymphatic mapping is maximized and information gained from sentinel node biopsy is used to best effect, so that advice and treatment can be tailored to the individual patient. The studies contained within this thesis represent an attempt to improve the quality and individualization of care. The technique of lymphatic mapping using lymphoscintigraphy has been critically analysed to identify sources of inaccuracy. The frequency and causes of failure to identify sentinel nodes using lymphoscintigraphy have been determined in a large series of patients. The lymphatic drainage patterns from the head and neck have been investigated, using the forehead and its subdivisions, in order to produce new recommendations for selective neck dissection. The relative importance of clinical and pathological factors in sentinel node positive patients and the significance of nodal metastasis beyond sentinel nodes have been determined. A new prognostic classification or survival tree has been developed for patients with occult nodal metastases and then validated in a separate population. This allows four distinct prognostic groups with 5-year survival ranging from over 90% to around 20% to be identified. The prognostic groups differentiate patients who are at high and low risk of having occult distant metastases and so could be used to select patients for entry into clinical trials of adjuvant therapies as well as to determine who should receive existing adjuvant therapies. The survival tree has been compared with currently available prognostic tools with favourable results.
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McDonald, Tracesandra Jade. "Witchcraft and occult crime within a contemporary Canadian context." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/MQ45239.pdf.
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Greene, Elizabeth. "The Kabbalah in the British Occult Revival, 1860-1940." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520223.
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Cheung, Ka-yee Cindy, and 張家怡. "Occult hepatitis B virus reinfection in liver transplant recipient." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41290562.
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Darie, Camelia Dana. "Victor Brauner and the surrealist interest in the occult." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/victor-brauner-and-the-surrealist-interest-in-the-occult(15306875-b880-456e-929a-ce86265a9a1a).html.
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My research on Victor Brauner’s work in the first two decades of his affiliation with the Surrealist group in Paris re-establishes the role played by the Romanian Jewish artist in the definition of automatic Surrealist procedures of painting and mixed-technique objects that relied upon a new and unconventional understanding of the occult. In the three chapters of this study of Victor Brauner’s work in the 1930s and early 1940s, I analyse key notions, such as the fantastic, animal magnetism, and the occult practices of art making in a Surrealist context. The fantastic is discussed in the first chapter of the thesis from a literary perspective with political connotations in Surrealism, which resulted from a debate engaged in nineteenth-century French literature on the issue of the marvellous versus the fantastic. Due to the Surrealists’ interest in the fantastic a new category emerged, the fantastic art, which is examined in this first chapter in connection with Brauner’s artworks in the 1930s. The incursion into the fantastic, with focus on the premonition of the painter’s left eye loss in his artworks of the 1930s is completed with an approach to spiritualism that had a revival at the time. The second chapter of the thesis investigates the doctrine of animal magnetism and the state of magnetic somnambulism in eighteenth-century scholarship and shows how this experimentation had influenced the development of a new branch of the science, metapsychics or psychical research at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth one. I take into account and demonstrate that these outdated and modern domains of enquiry into the unknown and beyond reality were appealing to Surrealists, in particular to Brauner, due to their research into unconscious processes of the mind. I argue that through the attainment of a condition similar to the one of the somnambulist in sessions of magnetic sleep, the Surrealists aimed to generate automatic procedures of painting and object making. In the third chapter of the thesis I discuss Victor Brauner’s technique of drawing with a candle, or le cirage, as an automatic procedure of art developed in connection with the occult. This final part of the thesis makes also manifest the association of Brauner’s artworks in the early 1940s with practices of the occult in the near and centuries before past.
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Cheung, Ka-yee Cindy. "Occult hepatitis B virus reinfection in liver transplant recipient." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41290562.
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Webb, Jessica. "What lies beneath : orthodoxy and the occult in Victorian literature." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55460/.
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This thesis explores the relationship between orthodox Christianity, quasi-religious movements, pseudo-science and the supernatural in both a pre- and post-Darwinian world, tracing it through fiction and non-fiction, and in novels, novellas and short stories by canonical authors Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, by the lesser known writers Catherine Crowe, and Arthur Machen, and in the non-Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Across this variety of literary forms, these very different authors all engage with the supernatural, with quasi religious creeds and with pseudo-science. Chapter One focuses on the presence of the supernatural and the spirit world in Edward Bulwer Lytton's Zanoni (1846), and The Haunted and the Haunters; or the House and the Brain (1859), Catherine Crowe's The Night-Side of Nature (1848), and Charles Dickens' Christmas stories. Chapter two explores George Eliot's use of superstition and medieval and Jewish mysticism in The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Daniel Deronda (1876), before considering Thomas Hardy's Anglo-centric approach to similar issues in The Return of the Native (1878), and "The Withered Arm" (1888). Chapter three discusses the late nineteenth century interest in spiritualism, Egyptology, and ancient religion as represented in Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan (1894) and Arthur Conan Doyle's "The King of Thoth" (1890) and "Lot No. 249" (1894). Overall, the thesis is concerned with the way "rational" Victorian society is constantly undermined by its engagement with the supernatural: the nineteenth century desire for empirical evidence of life after death proves, paradoxically, Victorian irrationality.
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McWilliams, S. J. "Magic and Possibility : Medievalism and the idea of the Occult." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527868.
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White, Rachel. "Occult poetics and the production of English verse, 1558-1603." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/86197/.
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This thesis examines how the occult tradition is an inherent part of the production of vernacular literature during the Elizabethan period. I argue that occult discourses about language are drawn upon by writers of the period who seek to establish an English literature to rival that of the classical tradition. The quotidian nature of occult philosophies which vacillate between the scientific and the magical in the early modern period has been recognised in recent criticism. Taking into consideration the etymological root of the word occult as secret or hidden, this thesis departs from the traditional demarcations of occult studies. By removing the occult from the realm of the magus and dramatic sensationalism, this thesis begins with the premise that occult discourses are present within Elizabethan culture and are absorbed into textual practice. It adopts the term occult poetics to describe the processes of writing that rely upon occult discourses to imbue efficacious qualities and communicate esoteric knowledge within Elizabethan vernacular poetry. I examine John Dee, traditionally viewed as a magus-figure, and resituate him within discourses about language. I show that Dee believed the divine origins of language lay in geometry and number, and that his semiotics informs his hopes for Elizabethan imperialism. Contemporaneous to Dee’s depiction of Elizabeth as imperial queen is Edmund Spenser’s cry to establish English as a kingdom of language, which leads to experimentation with English verse that is based on the occult qualities of number and quantity. I consider how occult and emergent scientific discourses are engaged with in the new poetry in terms of cosmology with Fulke Greville and Giordano Bruno, and optics in George Chapman’s poetry. Finally, I approach the figure of Elizabeth as an occult body analogous to the lodestone who sits at the centre of language production through analysing Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.
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Lee, Ming-tong Tony, and 李銘棠. "Detection of occult influenza infection in patients with sudden cardiac death." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40738218.
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S, Hanekom Gideon. "The detection of occult metastatic disease in patients with cutaneous melanoma." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26789.
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The ability to identify melanoma patients with progressive disease is central to efficient management. The challenge therefore, is to develop prognostic markers and techniques which will allow the identification of those patients whom, at the time of primary tumor diagnosis, already have micrometastases (occult or clinically undetectable metastases). The use of the reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) technique for the detection of circulating melanoma cells (CMCs) is potentially a powerful tool for identifying those patients at risk for developing metastases. The first aim of this study was to develop a more sensitive, reproducible, cost effective and clinically applicable assay and to eliminate the problem of false positives. A combined RT-PCR assay for tyrosinase mRNA, a marker specific for melanoma cells, was developed and tested. It was shown that the assay can reproducibly detect a single, viable melanoma cell in 10-15 ml of peripheral blood. Furthermore, a simple but effective procedure was developed to prevent carryover contamination. It was found that the chance of obtaining normal melanocyte contamination with the needle prick during blood sampling was only 2% and that illegitimate transcription does not contribute to sporadic false positives. The second aim of this study was to determine whether the early detection of CMCs is of any clinical value to monitor melanoma progression. Peripheral blood samples from 143 patients with primary melanoma (PM) were analysed by RT-PCR for the presence of tyrosinase mRNA. Seven percent (10/143) of the patients with PM had detectable CMCs. The percentage of PCR-positive patients was higher for stage II patients (9.0%) compared to stage I (5.3%) but the difference was not significant. A significantly higher percentage (P < 0.05) PCR-positive patients were found to have tumors greater than 1.5 mm thick and with ulceration present. Although this finding supports the notion that tumor thickness and ulceration are the two most significant prognostic factors, it was not possible at this stage, to link this directly to a poor prognosis since the majority of the PCR-positive patients have not yet (within four years) developed metastatic disease. However, the data does indicate that cells from tumors greater than 1.5 mm thick and with ulceration have a greater propensity to enter the circulation but that these cells do not necessarily have the ability to establish metastases. The results suggest that the detection rate of 9% for patients with stage II disease is much lower than would be expected, since 23.9% (16/67) of the stage II patients subsequently developed metastases. Of these 16 patients, only one was PCR-positive, one week before the metastases became clinically evident. Thus, the current technique fails to predict the likelihood of developing metastatic disease (P = 0.3485). The other nine PCR-positive patients had not yet developed metastases after a median follow-up period of four years. It is concluded that the current technique for the detection of CMCs is of limited clinical value to predict the likelihood of metastasis in patients with PM. It is suggested that other anatomic compartments, such as sentinel lymph nodes, should be explored for the identification of patients at risk for developing metastases. The third aim of this study was to determine whether high or low plasma levels and/or activity of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI1) correlate with the presence of metastatic disease in patients with melanoma. PAI1 is considered to be the main regulator of fibrinolytic activity in blood and has been identified as a key enzyme in the metastasis and vascularization of solid tumors. A unique enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay was developed to measure both the total amount of PAI1 in plasma as well as the active fraction of the inhibitor. This novel assay was then used to analyse and compare the plasmatic PAI1 levels and activity of a group of patients with advanced melanoma (AM) with a group of patients with primary disease and a control population. There was no statistical difference in the total plasmatic PAI1 levels between the controls and patients with PM and AM (P = 0.6199). In contrast, there was a significant difference in the active fraction of PAI1 between the controls and patients with PM or AM (P = 0.0076). A value of less than 44% active PAI1 was shown to be clinically meaningful by linear discriminant analysis. This means that a melanoma patient with a plasmatic PAI1 activity value less than 44% will have a 50% chance of harbouring metastases. Of the patients with PM, 19% had PAI1 activity values less than 44%, which strongly supports further investigations to determine whether plasmatic PAI1 activity levels might be predictive of metastatic disease. The false positive rate was 2.6%. It is speculated that this reduction in the active fraction of PAI1 for patients with AM might be attributed to tumor-derived tissue plasminogen activator and/or other melanoma-derived proteases or factors. The last section of this study describes several monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) that were developed against PAI1 in order to obtain useful reagents to study the regulatory functions of PAI1 in the metastasis and vascularization of solid tumors. The baculovirus expression system was used to express human PAI1 in insect cells and the crude infected cell population was used as the immunogen in mice. This approach was followed since the Escherichia coli-derived recombinant molecule elicited a poor immune response. A unique panel of anti-PAI1 Mabs was developed that were characterized with regard to their use for immunoblotting, immunofluorescence and immunocytochemistry. One of these antibodies blocked the binding of PAI1 to vitronectin and inhibited the activity of the inhibitor. Finally, two of these Mabs turned out to be extremely valuable and were used to develop a novel microtiter plate assay for measuring the active fraction of PAI1 in biological fluids by making use of Mabs against different epitopes of PAI1.
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Martin, Quigley Christina M. "Characterization of Occult Hepatitis B Virus Infection in HIV-Positive Individuals." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307441402.
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Powell, Eleanor A. "Viral Factors Associated with Occult HBV in HIV-positive South Africans." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439561912.
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Mattos, David. "PROPHYLACTIC MASTECTOMIES: OCCULT HISTOLOGY AND FISCAL IMPACTS OF SURVEILLANCE VS. SURGERY." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://etds.lib.harvard.edu/hms/admin/view/51.
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During the last decade, our institution saw a 260% increase in bilateral breast reconstruction cases, consistent with national trends. We reported a drop in average age of prophylactic mastectomy from 57 to 51 years. There is limited data on the likelihood of histological abnormalities in this population. This study measures the prevalence of occult histological findings in prophylactic mastectomy patients. Given the current healthcare reform climate, we estimate the lifetime cost implications of prophylactic mastectomy with immediate reconstruction vs. surveillance.
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A retrospective database of breast reconstructions at the Massachusetts General Hospital was searched from 2004 to 2011 for prophylactic mastectomy patients. Breasts with prior biopsy-proven LCIS, DCIS, or cancer were excluded. Patient demographics, risk factors, and pathology reports were collected. Lifetime treatment reimbursements were estimated with 2013 rates from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services using Medicare billing codes. Reimbursements were estimated for 45-year-old patients undergoing contralateral prophylactic mastectomy and 40-year-old patients undergoing bilateral prophylactic mastectomies, and then were compared to women opting for surveillance. Conversion rates to cancer in these patients were used to estimate the percentage patients in the surveillance groups that would need therapeutic mastectomy. Sensitivity analyses were done to test the robustness of the models.
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495 prophylactic mastectomy specimens were identified, of which 2.0% had invasive cancer, 4.4% had ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), and 10.9% had lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) as the highest-risk lesion. Only age group was predictive of finding DCIS or cancer (P=0.02). The likelihood of finding LCIS, DCIS, or cancer increased with age group (P<0.001) and decreased with prior bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO)(P=0.02). In almost all scenarios, lifetime reimbursements were lower for pursuing either contralateral or bilateral prophylactic mastectomy, with immediate single-stage implant, expander, or abdominal perforator free flap (DIEP) reconstruction, as compared to surveillance.
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Prophylactic mastectomy patients have a significant rate of occult histological findings, increasing with age group and decreasing with prior BSO. Lifetime cost estimates suggest a cost-saving role in bilateral and contralateral prophylactic mastectomies. Ultimately, such a critical decision needs to be made individually, but should not be hindered by cost concerns. This study addresses a gap in knowledge with broad interest, contributing evidence of oncologic risk and cost to help guide decision-making in prophylactic mastectomy.
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Lee, Ming-tong Tony. "Detection of occult influenza infection in patients with sudden cardiac death." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40738218.
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o'byrne, Tamsin Kilner. "Empire of the imagination: victorian popular fiction and the Occult, 1880-1910." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489230.
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This thesis assesses the ways in which occult activities and ideas prevalent during the late-Victorian period inspired and informed contemporary popular fiction. I argue that direct involvement with occultism was not necessary in order to feel the influence of its preoccupations: magic and supernatural interests at this time were so popular as to pervade the public imagination without requiring a personal engagement with either.
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Libby, Gillian. "The impact of population based faecal occult blood screening on colorectal cancer." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2014. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/c1ff9b50-a4cd-4e3b-9376-7f31b40ac8d3.
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A series of studies were carried out to assess the impact of guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBT) screening on colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality and associated outcomes in a true population based screening programme. Using data from the Scottish arm of the UK demonstration pilot of gFOBT screening for CRC, all residents in the three Scottish pilot NHS board areas invited for gFOBT screening were compared to controls individually matched by age, gender and deprivation and resident in one of the remaining Scottish NHS boards where screening had not been introduced. A reduction in CRC mortality was shown for those invited for screening and a further reduction in those who completed the test. Screening participants also benefited from reductions in emergency admissions to hospital, length of hospital stay and stoma formation. It was estimated that nine people had died during the pre-clinical stage of disease from a cause which may have been associated with the process initiated by the screening test. In additional studies, a randomised controlled trial (RCT) showed that a pre-notification letter was an effective method of increasing participation in gFOBT screening. In an examination of national trends in CRC survival in Scotland, an effect of gFOBT was apparent even in an all age cohort. An impact of gFOBT screening on all cause mortality could not be assessed due to a biased study cohort. In conclusion, the reduction in CRC mortality with gFOBT screening previously demonstrated in RCTs can be matched at the population level and these results justify the introduction of gFOBT screening to all four UK countries following the successful completion of the demonstration pilot. However, the studies showed that the benefits of screening were limited to those who participated. It is likely that a greater impact of screening would be realised with greater participation and increasing this is a priority.
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Britton, J. Philip. "A community study of bladder cancer screening by detection of occult urinary bleeding." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283841.
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O'Rourke, John Peter. "East-West-occult : esotericism through fine art practice, autobiographical referencing and historical research." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/8f55311a-6116-4b2d-92b0-674478f68f1e.
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Wallace, Charles Allen. ""Dread of Elder Titles": John Haywood and the Occult Origins of the Confederacy." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068097.
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This work unearths the dark work of John Haywood (1762–1826), an overlooked Tennessee historian and judge who provided foundational historical and legal arguments for the Confederate nation. Published in 1819, his apocalyptic Southern history, The Christian Advocate, simultaneously justified Indian Removal and simplified white Southerners’ claims of title to land. He thus became the first thinker to give Southerners a sense of place in the deep history of the South; the first to convince them they belonged where they lived. andrew Jackson, for example, memorized passages from the Christian Advocate to convince himself: Southern Indians are the armies of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Book of Revelation; their ancestors massacred the mysterious, slaveholding mound-builders who inhabited the South prior to European contact; and they are waiting on the frontier to annihilate emerging Christian plantations in the young states of Mississippi and Alabama. While writing The Christian Advocate, Haywood used his position on the Tennessee Supreme Court to weave its logic into the property laws that became models for those of Mississippi and Alabama. His rulings assured planters that they should not “dread” violating “elder titles” in their sleep, or fear having some future judge determine they did not have a right to their land. By removing demonic Indian murderers, planters were restoring civilization to the Devil’s wilderness, an act that would bring about a New Jerusalem. By 1861, Haywood had given historians such as William Gilmore Simms and politicians such as Alexander Stephens something vital: historical arguments justifying the Confederate nation and its slaveholding theocracy. In overlooking Haywood and his influence, historians have missed a bizarre (to us) but nonetheless crucial link between historiography and the emergence of the Confederacy.
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Spoto, Stephanie Irene. "Figure of Lilith and the feminine demonic in early modern literature." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7730.
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To mark its 250th anniversary in 2002, the British Museum decided to make one of the earliest existent depictions of Lilith, or Astarte, its chief acquisition. Called The Burney Relief —after Sidney Burney, who had purchased it in 1935— it was purchased in June 2003 from a Mr Sakamoto at the price of ₤1,500,000. To celebrate its entrance into the museum's collections, it was renamed the “Queen of the Night” by the British Museum (Collon 2005 511). It has been connected to feminine divine and demonic figures, such as Ishtar, Lilith, Astarte, and has been called “Queen of the Underworld” (Collon 2007 50). My thesis looks at these figures of the feminine demonic and the evolution of occult philosophy, and particularly demonology, within Early Modern England, and how demonological studies influenced and were influenced by current sociopolitical climates. Within much occult writing, nonChristian sources (including preChristian philosophy and Hebraic Cabala) were incorporated into the Christian world view, and affected Christian systems of angelic hierarchies and man's place within these hierarchies. English occult thought was influenced by continental writers and philosophers such as Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Leon Modena. One figure, in particular, featured strongly in many of the demonological writings which were making their way into English occultism: Lilith. When dealing with issues of political and sexual power, Lilith often appears as a focal point for philosophers as they attempt to discover links between gender, demons, and evil. This thesis examines the feminine demonic and the figure of Lilith in the art and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, looking both at the occult practioners John Dee, Simon Forman, and Edward Kelley, and at the literary traditions that came out of that occult philosophy. It explores how Lilith manifests in literature which tries to address anxieties surrounding the feminine demonic and sexuality, and the implications of a demonic, political inversion. Lilith and the feminine demonic are seen to be relevant to the works of Ben Jonson, James VI and I, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and John Selden, with a final chapter examining the evidence of Lilith in Milton's poetry, and in particular, Milton's Paradise Lost.
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Stolzenberg, Daniel. "Egyptian Oedipus antiquarianism, oriental studies and occult philosophy in the work of Athanasius Kircher /." Full text available at, 2003. http://stolzius.ipsiad.com/dissertation.htm.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2004.Submitted to the Department of History. Copyright by the author. Description based on web page; title from title screen (viewed 1 September 2005). Includes bibliographical references.
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Dapena, Archilés Marta. "Implementation of occult hepatitis screening in the spanish cohort of hiv-infected pediatric patients." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399351.
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El paciente infectado por VIH presenta, en nuestro entorno, una mayor esperanza de vida con prácticamente ausencia de episodios definitorios de SIDA. La cuestión es si esta mayor esperanza de vida está libre de enfermedades concomitantes o si van a aparecer otras nuevas. La enfermedad hepática es un buen ejemplo de este cambio epidemiológico.
El paciente infectado por VIH presenta un riesgo de afectación hepática a través, tanto de la acción directa del virus como del efecto de los fármacos antirretrovirales. Por otra parte, las tasas de infección de VHB y VHC son considerablemente más altas en estos pacientes, al compartir la mayor parte de las vías de transmisión.
Los pacientes infectados por el VIH pueden presentar coinfecciones por virus hepatotropos serológicamente silentes: la infección VHB oculta y la infección por VHC seronegativa, que no se diagnostican con los métodos habituales. Estas entidades suponen un aumento del riesgo de reactivación de la enfermedad, progresión y evolución a daño hepático crónico y grave, sobre todo en los niños que adquieren el virus precozmente.
La inclusión rutinaria del cribado de hepatitis ocultas sería una herramienta útil para identificar a los pacientes con riesgo de descompensación hepática, de especial interés en los niños que viven con el VIH, ya que se enfrentan a una perspectiva de coinfección, y riesgo de daño hepático, de por vida.
A través de este estudio transversal en la cohorte nacional de pacientes VIH pediátricos (CoRISPe) se abordó la prevalencia de coinfección por VHB y VHC, así como la coinfección por hepatitis ocultas. De forma secundaria, se realizó una valoración no invasiva de la fibrosis hepática a través de marcadores bioquímicos (ALT/AST ratio, APRI index, FIB-4 score).
Se incluyó un total de 254 pacientes. Tres (1.2%) presentaron una VHB crónica y 13 (5%) una infección crónica por VHC. Seis niños se consideraron probables casos de infección VHB oculta, 2 con anti-HBc aislado y 4 con un patrón serológico anti-HBc+/anti-HBs+, a pesar de la negatividad de la PCR a VHB en plasma. Dos pacientes (0.8%) presentaron infección VHC seronegativa. No se realizaron biopsias hepáticas en este estudio por razones éticas.
La evaluación no invasiva de la fibrosis hepática fue patológica en los 3 y en 7 de los 13 con infecciones por VHB y VHC, respectivamente, advirtiendo de una posible fibrosis subyacente. Una paciente infectado por VHC mostró alteración simultánea de los tres marcadores incluidos en el estudio. Cinco de los 6 casos de probable VHB oculta mostraron ALT/AST ratios alteradas pero con normalidad en el APRI y FIB-4 score. Los dos casos de infección VHC seronegativa presentaron valores anormales. En los niños infectados por VIH sin coinfección por virus hepatotropos, el 77% mostró ALT/AST ratios elevadas mientras que el 5.7% presentó valores anormales de APRI. Sólo un paciente mostró un FIB-4 score elevado.
En ausencia de datos más amplios sobre coinfección en población pediátrica infectada por el VIH, la prevalencia de VHB y VHC en CoRISPe es similar a lo descrito previamente. Aunque la tasa de coinfección por hepatitis ocultas en esta cohorte fue baja (3.1%) parece razonable la inclusión de técnicas de diagnóstico molecular que aumenten la sensibilidad en el diagnóstico de las hepatitis ocultas.
Se necesitan más datos para evaluar la idoneidad del uso de los scores bioquímicos para valoración de fibrosis hepática en esta población pediátrica, con el objetivo de aumentar la sensibilidad y especificidad, y correlacionar los resultados con la biopsia hepática, que sigue siendo la técnica de referencia.HIV-infected patients can now enjoy a longer life expectancy with almost no AIDS defining episodes if diagnosed promptly, as is the case for most vertically infected children in our setting. The question is whether this longer life expectancy is free of comorbidities or whether other medical conditions will appear. Liver disease is a good example of this epidemiological change. A worse outcome of liver disease is expected through both the direct action of the virus and the effect of the antiretroviral drugs. Moreover, HIV itself is considered a risk factor that contributes to increased MTCT of the hepatitis virus. Furthermore, the infection rates of HBV and HCV are considerably higher in patients living with HIV, as they share most of the transmission routes. HIV-infected patients prone to uncommon variations of hepatotropic coinfections which are serologically silent, namely, occult hepatitis B infection and seronegative HCV infection. These entities bring an increased risk of disease reactivation, progression and evolution to chronic and severe liver damage, especially in children who acquire the virus early in life. Current regular screening methods may miss the diagnosis of these coinfections in immunocompromised patients. The inclusion of screening for OBI and seronegative hepatitis C in routine HIV patient monitoring would be a useful tool to identify those patients at risk of hepatic decompensation. In HIV-infected children who face the prospect of a lifetime coinfection, this possibility would be of particular interest, and highly beneficial, as it would become possible to anticipate secondary clinical conditions and future complications. This is a cross-sectional study among the Spanish cohort of HIV-infected children (CoRISPe) in order to assess the prevalence of HBV and HCV infection and occult hepatitis as well. Secondarily noninvasive liver fibrosis assessment through biochemical serum markers was made. A total of 254 patients were included in this study. Three (1.2%) and 13 (5%) patients respectively had serological markers compatible with overt cHBV and cHCV infection. Two patients showed spontaneous clearance of HCV infection. Six children were considered probable OBI cases, 2 presenting with anti-HBc alone and 4 with an anti-HBc+/anti-HBs+ serological pattern, although blood HBV DNA testing was negative in all cases. Two patients (0.8%) had seronegative HCV infection. Noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis was pathological in all 3 with overt cHBV and in 7 out of 13 with overt cHCV, warning of a possible underlying fibrosis. One HCV-infected patient showed simultaneous alteration of the three scores included in the study. Five out of 6 probable OBI cases appeared to have altered ALT/AST ratio but APRI index and FIB-4 scores were normal in all patients with occult hepatitis. Both cases of seronegative HCV infection showed abnormal scores values. Among HIV-monoinfected children, 77% showed raised ALT/AST ratios, while 5.7% presented APRI abnormal values. Just one patient showed FIB-4 score abnormality. The HBV and HCV prevalence coinfection rates in this cohort appear to be in keeping with previously published data, in the absence of wider prevalence coinfection data for the HIV-infected pediatric population. The global rate of occult hepatitis coinfection cases detected in this cohort was low (3.1%). However, molecular diagnosis assays are indicated to increase the sensitivity of detection and minimize the risk of under-diagnosis and its clinical implications in adulthood. Further research is needed to assess the suitability of using biochemical scores in these populations in order to approach good levels of sensitivity and specificity, and to correlate this method to liver fibrosis assessed by imaging and/or biopsy.
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Acheson, Susan Josephine. "Catching up to Jung : a study of the occult relationship between H.D. and Jung." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244165.
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Perks, Simone K. "Dice-box of chance : the problem of causality in surrealism, science and the occult." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.625465.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore the intellectual discourse centred on chance and causality focusing on the first half of the twentieth century. The thesis will examine how philosophical ideas attendant on the notions of chance and causality trace a path through surrealist discourse. The thesis will analyse surrealism in relation to notions regarded as the handmaidens of chance: spontaneity, flux, the possible and the arbitrary, as well as explore philosophical issues arising from the semantic field of causation: necessity, determinism, indeterminism, probability, destiny and free will. A major objective of this thesis is to bring the 'two cultures' of art and science (including pseudo-science) under one study. Surrealism therefore, will be analysed via the prism of quantum theory, probability theory, psychoanalysis, dynamic psychiatry, the divinatory arts and metapsychology. The thesis will draw on primary statements relating to chance and causality with special attention to sources either owned or referenced by the surrealists. These statements will provide a springboard from which to select visual documents from surrealism that are in dialogue with the prevailing discourse. One of the key points highlighted by this thesis is that surrealism refuses to give a definitive definition to the nature or laws of either chance or necessity, as to do so would be to turn these notions into absolutes. Instead, surrealism explored the dialectics of chance and necessity. I argue that the ambiguity of chance and necessity evident in surrealism is related to the surrealists' aim to surmount irreconcilable antinomies, an objective which is facilitated by their faith in the laws of dialectical materialism.
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Moore, Kathryn M. "Identification of Early Markers of Occult Tissue Hypoperfusion in Patients with Multiple Trauma Injuries." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/nursing_etds/27.
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Injury is a global health problem and in the United States is the leading cause of death for persons aged 1 – 44 years. The primary causes of trauma related death are head injury and hemorrhage; hemorrhagic shock is difficult to recognize in the first hours after trauma. Identification of specific and optimal criteria upon which to base effective triage decisions for trauma patients has been an elusive goal for decades.
The purpose of this dissertation was to identify measures available in the prehospital phase of care and in the Emergency Department that should be included for a more comprehensive definition of the trauma patient who will require trauma center care to better allocate trauma care and resources available.
The first paper is a critical review of early physiologic markers of occult tissue hypoperfuson in which we examine markers of cardiovascular function and markers of tissue perfusion. In this review, we found surrogate measures of tissue perfusion include shock index as a measure of hemodynamic stability and acid-base indicators as measures of tissue oxygenation. This review guides the variable selection for the research study.
The second paper is a report of a study conducted to examine shock index calculated from the first available prehospital vital signs and first available emergency department vital signs as a predictor of mortality within 48-hours in trauma compared to the Injury Severity Score. Shock index can be calculated in real-time during the course of treatment and provides continuous input into the ever changing condition of the patient. Injury severity score is calculated once, at the time of hospital discharge and is used primarily as a marker for comparison of injury severity in research and quality measures of trauma care. The study consisted of 516,156 trauma patient data reported to the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) in 2009. The results revealed SI as calculated in both the pre-hospital phase of care by Emergency Medical Services and in the Emergency Department to be significant independent predictors of mortality within forty-eight hours from trauma injuries.
The third paper is a report of a study conducted to examine potential markers of occult tissue hypoperfusion within forty-eight hours of injury. The variables included four major variable categories, physiologic measures, anatomic measures, injury severity and presence of reported comorbid illness. The variable most predictive of death from trauma related injuries within forty-eight hours was the need for intubation.
The findings from this dissertation provide further evidence of the value of multiple physiologic markers in early recognition of occult tissue hypoperfusion. Data from neither the review of the literature nor the two data-based studies are sufficient to identify a brief, accurate, easily used clinical instrument. Further work is needed to develop a clinically useful instrument to identify the occult tissue hypoperfusion in the trauma patient.
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Clouston, Victoria J. "The poetics of hermeticism : André Breton's shift towards the occult in the War years." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2012. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/be8dc992-df76-4aa0-9233-943db00d8e5b/1/.
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André Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement, which he had founded with others in 1924 in the wake of the First World War, left Nazi-occupied France in 1941. Sailing from Marseilles, with an enforced three week stop in Martinique while waiting for onward passage, he chose to carry the spirit of Surrealism into ‘exile’ in the United States until 1946, rather than risk its extinction by remaining in war-torn Europe. Following his journey into exile, this thesis traces the trajectory of Breton’s thought and poetic output of 1941–1948, studying the major works written during those years and following his ever deeper research into hermeticism, myth and the occult in his quest for “un mythe nouveau” for the post-war world. Having abandoned political action on leaving the Communist Party in 1935, he nonetheless remained preoccupied with political thought, searching to find a means of creating a better society for a shattered post-war world, while at the same time maintaining a close connection between art and life. Realizing that any political system would inflect Surrealism to its own ends, Breton sought to find a means of achieving his aim through a return to the role of the ‘poet-mage’ of Romanticism. We follow the poet on his quest during these years, revealing his in-depth exploration of the tenets of Romanticism in which he discovers the roots of Surrealism, demonstrating also how he was affected by his re-reading of Victor Hugo, with whom he identifies to a certain extent during his time in exile. We study his poetic output of these years, in which we follow from their earliest stages indications of the shift in direction, away from political action towards hermeticism and the occult. On his return to France in 1946, we see Breton come under sustained attack from his detractors for his journey into hermeticism. Undaunted, he holds to his course, apparently unaware of his misreading of the spirit of the time. Although Surrealism is far from dead, its leader seems from this time to lose his creative inspiration and while his writing continues, his poetic output dwindles to almost nothing. However, even some years after Breton’s death, Julien Gracq predicts that it is “no longer unreasonable to imagine [...] that one day Surrealism will have an heir, a movement whose form we cannot predict”.
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Coffindaffer, Jarrett W. "Colorectal cancer cost-effectiveness of screening and chemoprevention in average risk males /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2006. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4633.
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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2006.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 98 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-98).
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Swartz, Karen. "Masters and Servants : A study concerning the Theosophical Society and Orientalism." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Cultural Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-7873.
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During the nineteenth century, an impressive number of occult organizations blossomed both in Europe and the United States. The most influential of these groups was arguably the Theosophical Society. One feature that set it apart from other groups was the assertion that its teachings came from highly advanced beings often referred to in Theosophical literature as the “Masters.” Various authors claim that two of them, Koot Hoomi and Morya, have their roots in the East. However, the descriptions provided include many aspects that might be more readily associated with the West.
The aim of this study is to critically examine a selection of Theosophical writings composed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which concern the Masters in the light of the notion of Orientalism. Textual analysis is the method applied. The question I seek to answer is: In what ways do these descriptions exemplify Orientalism? The results indicate that examples can be found in discussions concerning their names and titles, how they are defined, the brotherhood to which they belong, characteristics they possess, their functions, their homes, and what they look like. This is also the case in regard to writings describing how one becomes a Master and those debating whether or not they exist. The matters addressed are relevant because they provide insight into how conceptualizations of other cultures are constructed and because the notion of ascended masters is still a common one in new age religion.
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Smuts, Albert J. "Deconstructing permanence : the emergence of public place through reconfiguration of form." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45295.
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Three underlining themes govern this dissertation
They are as follows:
-Change as a constant, indefinable factor within South Africa’s emergent public
-Architectural informants as linear, process-driven vectors, and the relevance of
potential alternative approaches.
-Articulation of space, and the role of signification in architectural form.
This project aims to address these themes through applying mapping techniques
derived from the social sciences, and, more specifically, anthropology viewed from a
classical-philosophy vantage point, to find new explorative ways of truly understanding
the context in question. This, in turn, will allow one to respond accordingly and in a
manner representative of this new paradigm.
The cumulative product aims to create a new, viable architectural intervention that
applies relevant theoretical premises in a such a manner that the physical structure
can be studied as precedent for approaching future public architectural interventions
within the South African context.Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Oates, Lori Lee. "Secrecy redefined : print culture and the globalization of occult philosophies in the long nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22039.
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This thesis seeks to examine the relationship between occult religion and the global circulation of texts. For some time now, scholars have rejected the secularism thesis or the idea that there has been a decline of religion in the post-Enlightenment period. Today, we largely accept that religion did not actually decline or disappear but, rather, it has changed form. Religion shifted from traditional religious institutions to become an aspect of aesthetic culture, available through the commercial economy. My work explores how the relationship between the book and commercial religion emerged and evolved during the long nineteenth century. Occultism has long been viewed as an aspect of the rise of secular society following the Enlightenment. This thesis proposes a new lens through which we can view the evolution of occultism, seeing it as a response to growth in global networks of empire and the commercialization of religion through the printed word. It explores how the nature of the transmission of occultism shifted, particularly during the final decades of the nineteenth century. Antoine Faivre’s foundational text Access to Western Esotericism (1994) put forward the concept of the transmission of occultism as something that occurs between a disciple and an initiate. My thesis, however, argues that the widening of print activity and literacy expanded the opportunities for initiation into magic to occur more broadly, changing the nature of who could become an initiate. As such, secrecy around magic became redefined. It shifted from being a pursuit of the literate elite to something that was widely available. This analysis is delivered in four chapters. The introduction examines the relationship between literature and nineteenth-century occultism. It also discusses the influence of globalization. Chapter one discusses the occult in post-revolutionary France and the influence of Egyptian orientalism on French occultism. Chapter two addresses Victorian occultism and discusses the context of a growing Victorian literary industry. Chapter three addresses the Theosophical Society as an agent of globalized and commercialized religion. It also addresses the importance of British imperialism in India. Finally, chapter four discusses the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the resurgence of Egyptian orientalism and elitism in British occultism.
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Swartz, Laura A. "Occulture : W.B. Yeats' prose fiction and the late ninteenth- and early twentieth-century occult revival." CardinalScholar 1.0, 2010. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1560843.
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In addition to being a respected poet, dramatist, essayist, and statesman, William Butler Yeats was a dedicated student of the occult and practicing magician for most of his adult life. In spite of his dedication, Yeats’ commitment to occultism has often been ridiculed as “bughouse” (as Ezra Pound put it), shunted to the margins of academic discourse, or ignored altogether. Yeats’ occult-focused prose fiction—the occult trilogy of stories “Rosa Alchemica,” “The Tables of the Law,” and “The Adoration of the Magi” and the unfinished novel The Speckled Bird—has often received similarly dismissive treatment. Some critics have accused Yeats of being an escapist or of being out of touch with the intellectual currents of his time.
However, Yeats was in touch with the intellectual currents of his time, one of which was the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century occult revival. This was not a fringe movement; it was one which intersected with some of the most pressing social and cultural issues of the time. These include the dissatisfaction with mainstream religions, the renegotiation of women’s roles, the
backlash against science, and nationalism and the colonial enterprise. This intersection is what I have termed occulture.
The central purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, I demonstrate the cultural and academic relevance of the occult revival by analyzing its connections to these critical issues. Second, I situate the occult trilogy and The Speckled Bird as artifacts of the occult revival and its associated facets. Through its main characters, the occult trilogy illustrates a fragmented self associated with literary modernism and with scientific challenges to individual identity from Darwin, Freud, and others. In addition, these three stories exemplify a sacralization of the domestic sphere which conflicts with the officially-sanctioned sacred spaces of mainstream religions. The Speckled Bird also reconfigures the sacred space as Michael Hearne contemplates a magical order with Irish nationalist implications. In examining these works within this historical context, I present them as texts which engage with the social and cultural landscape of the time.Occulture : occultism and the occult revival -- The occult trilogy : self and space in an occult context -- The speckled bird : sacralizing Ireland.
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Butler, Alison L. "The revival of the occult philosophy, cabalistic magic and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ55487.pdf.
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Walker, Andrew. "An economic evaluation of mass population screening for colorectal cancer using a faecal occult blood test." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1993. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11302/.
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Cancer of the colon and rectum is a major cause of ill-health. Options for reducing the burden of the disease include primary prevention, screening for early stage asymptomatic disease and improvements in the treatment of symptomatic disease. If the policy objective is to make a major impact on mortality from the disease then screening appears to be the only technically feasible option. One indication of asymptomatic colorectal cancer is small quantities of blood mixed with faeces. Screening tests capable of detecting bleeding are currently being evaluated in clinical trials. Interim measures of the costs and disease yield of a screening programme using a faecal occult blood test imply that screening may offer good value for money but only if the intended mortality reduction from the disease is realised. There are various ways of 'fine-tuning' the screening programme to improve the balance of costs and benefits; information for making choices regarding important parameters such as the age range of the population to be offered screening are presented. Alternative screening tests are also evaluated and the results presented in terms of the cost-yield trade-off. The policy implications of the evaluation must be qualified at this stage since no proof of mortality reduction will be available until the conclusion of the ongoing trial. Nevertheless, under various assumptions about the impact of screening, the option appears to be an efficient way of reducing the health 'costs' of colorectal cancer.
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Denman, Alexandra. "The art of magic : British depictions of the occult in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21251/.
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In 2013, Witches and Wicked Bodies was the first major British exhibition with a focus on images of witches and witchcraft in art and visual culture, with a timeline spanning from the Renaissance period to the early twenty- first century, but one era was sorely neglected - only two of the impressive number of images made in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were included. The first aim of this thesis is, therefore, to draw attention to the occult imagery in British artworks created between 1849 and the end of the First World War, providing new perspectives on the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederick Sandys, Simeon Solomon, Edward Burne-Jones, Evelyn De Morgan, and John William Waterhouse. Additionally, this thesis addresses the prevalence of images of witchcraft, magico-religious ritual, and spiritualist practice (and the real-life continuation of such practices) in an era often characterised by scientific and industrial revolution, and tensions between the ‘rational’ and the ‘irrational’. As implied by the title, with the crux of the argument resting on the emphasis of a close examination between the connection between the occult and the arts, with both practices being forms of expression that rely on creativity.
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McCann, Michael Charles 1959. "Occult Invention: The Rebirth of Rhetorical Heuresis in Early Modern British Literature from Chapman to Swift." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12081.
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xiv, 234 p. : ill.The twentieth-century project of American rhetorician Kenneth Burke, grounded in a magic-based theory of language, reveals a path to the origins of what I am going to call occult invention. The occult, which I define as a symbol set of natural terms derived from supernatural terms, employs a method of heuresis based on a metaphor-like process I call analogic extension. Traditional invention fell from use shortly after the Liberal Arts reforms of Peter Ramus, around 1550. Occult invention emerged nearly simultaneously, when Early Modern British authors began using occult symbols as tropes in what I refer to as the Occult Mode. I use six of these authors--George Chapman, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, and Jonathan Swift--as examples of how occult invention arises. In appropriating occult symbolism, authors in the Occult Mode began using the invention methods of the occult arts of magic, alchemy, astrology, and cabala to derive new meanings, transform language, develop characters and plots, and reorient social perspectives. As we learn in tracking Burke's project, occult invention combines the principles of Aristotle's rhetoric and metaphysics with the techniques and principles of the occult arts. Occult invention fell from use around the end of the eighteenth century, but its rhetorical influence reemerged through the work of Burke. In this study I seek to contextualize and explicate some of the literary sources and rhetorical implications of occult invention as an emergent field for further research.
Committee in charge: Dianne Dugaw， Co-Chairperson； John T. Gage， Co-Chairperson； Kenneth Calhoon， Member； Steven Shankman， Member； Jeffrey Librett，Outside Member
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Boggs, Bruce D., Mary M. Stephens, and Rick L. Wallace. "How Does Colonoscopy Compare with Fecal Occult Blood Testing as a Screening Tool for Colon Cancer?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8685.
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A Cochrane review conducted a meta-analysis looking only at FOBT for colorectal cancer screening. This review, based on published and unpublished data from 5 controlled trials, demonstrated that 3-card home FOBT conferred a reduction in colorectal cancer mortality of 16% (relative risk [RR]=0.84; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.77-0.92) and a number needed to screen of 1173 (95% CI, 741-2807) to prevent 1 death from colon cancer over a 10-year period. If adjusted for adherence to screening, the reduction in mortality increased to 23% (RR=0.77; 95% CI, 0.57-0.89). In addition, long-term follow up of one of the RCTs in the review showed a continued reduction in colorectal cancer mortality of 34% (RR=0.66; 95% CI, 0.54-0.81) in subjects adhering to the FOBT screening protocol over a 13-year interval. Overall mortality did not differ between the screened and unscreened groups. A systematic review performed for the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) incorporated more recent data on colorectal cancer screening including colonoscopy. This review reached similar conclusions as above. This review also looked at office FOBT performed after digital rectal exam. It is important to note that a single office FOBT has a lower sensitivity than 3-card home FOBT and its effectiveness for reducing colorectal cancer mortality was unknown at the time of the systematic review. A subsequent 2005 Veterans Affairs prospective cohort study found that the sensitivity for detecting advanced neoplasia was only 4.9% for digital FOBT, and negative results did not decrease the likelihood of advanced neoplasia. The USPSTF review did not find any screening trials of colonoscopy but analyzed data from the National Polyp Study and a case-control study to draw its conclusions. The review reported an odds ratio for colorectal cancer mortality for patients who had colonoscopy to be 0.43 (95% CI, 0.30-63). The USPSTF review also looked at the sensitivity and adverse effects of FOBT compared to colonoscopy. One-time 3-card home FOBT had a sensitivity of 30% to 40% for detecting cancer. The sensitivity of one-time colonoscopy was difficult to determine since it was the criterion standard examination, but it was estimated to be greater than 90%, with a risk of perforation of 1/2000. The USPSTF review found both screening strategies cost-effective (<$30,000 per additional life-year gained) compared to no screening. FOBT had a cost per life-year saved of $5691 to $17,805 compared with $9038 to $22,012 for colonoscopy performed every 10 years.
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Averin, Konstantin M. D. "Diagnosis of Occult Diastolic Dysfunction Late After the Fontan Procedure Using a Rapid Volume Expansion Technique." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1458299500.
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Von, Maltitz Emil Arthur. "Occult forces -- lived identities: witchcraft, spirit possession and cosmology amongst the Mayeyi of Namibia's Caprivi Strip." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013279.
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Around Africa there seems to be an increasing disillusion with 'development', seen under the rubric of teleological 'progress', which is touted by post-colonial governments as being the cure for Africa's ailments and woes. Numerous authors have pointed out that this local disillusion, and the attempt to manage the inequities that arise through development and modernity, can be seen to be understood and acted upon by local peoples through the idiom of witchcraft beliefs and fears (see Geschiere & Fisiy 2001; Geschiere 1997; Nyamnjoh 2001; Comaroff & Comaroff 1993; Ashforth 2005) and spirit possession nanatives (see Luig 1999; Gezon 1999), or more simply, occult beliefs and praxis (Moore & Sanders 2001). The majority of the Mayeyi of Namibia's Eastern Caprivi perceive that development is the only way their regiOn and people can survive and succeed in a modernising world. At ~he same time there is also a seeming reluctance to move towards perceiving witchcraft as a means of accumulation (contra Geschiere 1997). This notion of the 'witchcraft of wealth' is emerging, but for the most part witches are seen as the enemies of development, while spirit possession narratives speak to the desire for development and of the identity of the group vis-a-vis the rest of the world. The thesis presented argues that, although modernity orientated analyses enable occult belief to be used as a lens through which to 1..mderstand 'modernity's malcontents' (Comaroff & Comaroff 1993), they can only go so far in explaining the intricacies of witchcraft and spirit possession beliefs themselves. The dissertation argues that one should return to the analysis of the cosmological underpinnings of witchcraft belief and spirit possession, taken together as complementary phenomena, in seeking to understand the domain of the occult. By doing so the thesis argues that a more comprehensive anthropological understanding is obtained of occult belief and practice, the ways in which the domain of the occult is constituted and the ways in which it is a reflection or commentary on a changing world.
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Lee, Kai-chung Arthur. "The prognostic significance of lymphatic and blood vessel invasion, angiogenesis and occult nodal metastasis in breast carcinoma." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31981604.
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